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                 Congregational Covenant of Adoption
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Adoption of an Unreached People Group is serious business. It is part
of spiritual warfare that involves personal sacrifice and intercessory
prayer. No one should enter into it lightly or without an intent of
fulfilling his covenant.  God holds us accountable to our promises.
Do not let Satan get an advantage over you through broken vows.

Any congregation wishing to enter into a covenant of adoption must
have carefully bathed the issue in prayer.  They should have carefully
studied the needs of at least 12 groups before focusing on one. Prior
to making this covenant they must have at least ten individuals and
families who have already entered into personal covenants with God for
these people.  (A church of less than 100 in average attendance may
have just 5 families involved.)

This covenant is a sacred vow before the Lord of the Harvest and
should not be entered into lightly or irreverently.  It must be the
determined purpose of at least 10 families of the church to pursue the
evangelization of this people with all haste, by every available
means.  This covenant is for the next three consecutive years.

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We hereby covenant before God, and the below signed witnesses, to
adopt into our hearts and lives the  ______________  people of
___________ ___________. We promise to love them, to pour out our
lives, energies, and soul's passions to reach them by any and all
means with the Gospel of Jesus Christ during the next ____ years.

We therefore covenant before God today ____________, 199__, that by
the grace of God, and the strength of the Holy Spirit, We, the
congregation at the _____________________________________________
church will endeavor to do the following tasks:

We do here this ____ day of _____________, 199__, solemnly covenant
with god and before men, that the _____________ people, of ___________
are our adopted Unreached people group.  We hold ourselves responsible
to see to it that they ____________ are penetrated with the witness of
Gospel of Jesus Christ, and that a strong witnessing church is raised
up among them during the next five years.

We covenant before God to love these people as if they were our own
families; to regularly pour out our hearts before God for them in
public and in private; to study and learn all that we can of their
language, customs, dress, religions, etc. so as to pray for them more
fervently, and effectively.


[]  To give a minimum of $200 per month to fund the direct
evangelistic endeavors to the __________ people.  I understand that
this is above and beyond our regular Great Commission giving which is
to support the missionaries.  (This is a church pledge not to be
confused with the individual adoption pledge. It is above an beyond
the individual's personal adoption pledge.)

[]  To send support and prayer teams to visit them as we are able that
we might pray for them personally, and encourage the missionaries that
labor among them, and assist in whatever physical and spiritual way
possible.

[]  To support Bible translation, Radio broadcasts, the Jesus Film,
short term missions projects, relief efforts, construction projects
and any other effective evangelistic tools that might win some of them
to Jesus Christ.


This covenant is to be signed in the presence of the congregation in a
public service


Pledged by (signatures):

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Pastor:   ___________________________________________________


Keep a copy for yourself. (Put it in a visible place.)
Send a copy to a missionary working among your adopted people.
Send a copy to the UPG Office with your 1st monthly offering.